Monday August 9, 2010 The Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir Western Canadian Tour, Knox-Metropolitan United Church 8310 - 109 St. Program will include traditional Welsh music both religious and secular as well as other popular tunes. Guest soloist will be Edmonton Soprano Ann Parry. Sponsored by the St. David's Welsh Society of Edmonton. Tickets $20 at the door. Information 780-434-5524 or 780-436-6460

Monday August 9, 2010 12pm ESO Musician Showcase Winspear Centre. Select members of the ESO share their favourite pieces in this special summer showcase event. FREE

Thursday August 12, 2010 to Sunday August 22, 2010 Il Duo - Trinity Lutheran Church 10014 81st Ave (see the Il Duo Fan Site for show times) Edmonton International Fringe Festival "... because the world needs more tenors ..." IL DUO is a musical comedy group in the style of Smothers Brothers and Wayne and Shuster, which pokes fun at Il Divo, the Canadian Tenors, and the rash of other tenor groups popping up on the world stage. IL DUO is comprised of three Edmonton Performers: Clint Hagel, Ron Long, and Gail Olmstead.

Saturday September 5, 2010 and Monday September 6, 2010 2pm Symphony Under the Sky, Great Canadian Songbook. Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park. Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture, and orchestral arrangements of memorable Canadian hits like Four Strong Winds, Snowbird, Big Yellow Taxi and Heart of Gold.

Sunday September 12, 2010 7:30pm From Zelazowa Wola to Paris. Mazurka Music. Zuzana Simurdova and Mikolaj Waszynski, piano. Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Chopin's birth. Presented in a multimedia format including a cross-section of works by Chopin through the various stages of his development. Convocation Hall, UofA. Contact Tix on the Square.

Sunday September 26, 2010 3pm Royal Canadian College of Organists concert series. Winspear Centre. Frédéric Champion (France). Winner of the First Canadian International Organ Competition. Contact Tix on the Square or Arnold Rumond 780-454-3882.

Sunday, October 24, 2010 3pm Robertson-Wesley United Church Alberta Baroque Music Society Haydn and Company Elizabeth Koch, Flute, Allene Hackleman, Horn. Werner, Sinfonia in G Major, Richter, Concerto for Flute in E Minor, Gluck, Sinfonia in G Major, and Haydn, Concerto for Horn in D Major

Sunday October 24, 2010 6pm Changing Lives 2010 with Kokopelli Choirs. Concert and silent auction for Edzimkulu and their fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Royal Alberta Museum, contact Tix on the Square.

Saturday November 6, 2010, 2pm Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre. Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Platypus Theatre's "Emily Saves the Orchestra". Lucas Waldin, conductor and Platypus Theatre. Young Emily is drawn out of her seat and onto the orchestral stage by the strains of beautiful music. However, her bold behaviour brings her much more than she bargained for. In this theatrical introduction to the instruments of the orchestra and the basic elements of music, find out how Emily battles to save music as the ESO presents works by Beethoven, Kabalevsky, Rossini, and more.

Sunday November 7, 2010 7:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Winspear Centre Lest We Forget...A Musical Tribute. A concert honouring our past and present Canadian Armed Forces personnel and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy. Tickets are $20 each and are available from the Cosmopolitan Music Society, Edmonton and area Legion Branches and Tix on the Square.

Monday November 15, 2010 12pm FREE UofA Monday Noon Music series. Wendy Nieuwenhuis, organ and Hyejin Lee, organ. Music by J.S. Bach (the bulk of the program!), Nicolas de Grigny and a duet by Samuel Wesley.

Wednesday November 17, 2010 5pm Hear's to your Health concert series offers free admission to classical music concerts for frazzled hospital workers as well as the general public. On Wednesday, November 17 at 5pm Hear's to your Health presents David Eggert, cello, at the University Hospital Walter C. Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre Snell Auditorium.

Saturday December 4, 2010 7:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard A Very Cosmopolitan Christmas band and chorus. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors

Saturday December 4, 2010 8pm La Chorale Saint-Jean - Hallelujah! Sing Noël! McDougall United Church (11125-101 St) Music from Handel’s Messiah, beautiful arrangements of traditional carols, a Russian piece which will leave everyone breathless, as well as a new piece by our own, France Levasseur-Ouimet, writer in residence for la Chorale Saint-Jean. Tickets can be purchased at la Librairie le Carrefour, in the Cité Francophone, Phase II (8627-91st street) or by calling (780) 466-1066.

Sunday December 5, 2010 2:30 Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard A Very Cosmopolitan Music band and chorus. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors

Monday December 6, 8pm The Many Moods of Christmas. Greenwood Singers. Motets and carols for Advent and Christmas. Helen Stuart, piano, Jeremy Spurgeon, organ, University of Alberta Faculty of Education Handbell Ringers. First Presbyterian Church (10025 105 St). Contact Tix on the Square.

Wednesday December 8, 2010 King's University College Concert Lo, In the Time

Saturday December 11, 2010 2pm and 7pm Kokopelli Choirs - Wintersong (afternoon). All four choirs share the stage with a special focus on Celtic music. McDougall United Church. Contact Tix on the Square.

Saturday December 11, 2010 7:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard A Very Cosmopolitan Christmas Band and Chorus. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors . At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors.

Sunday December 12, 2010 2:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard A Very Cosmopolitan Christmas Band and Chorus. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors . At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors.

Sunday December 12, 2010 4pm No charge, freewill offering. Concert of Hope and Light! (traditional congregational carols, scripture readings) Choir of Robertson-Wesley and soloists directed by Tammy-Jo Mortensen. The music includes several traditional favourites as well as choral pieces by Canadian composers, including Calgary composer Allan Bevan and Edmontonian Warren Mack. Robertson-Wesley United Church (10209-123 Street, Edmonton) For more information call Tammy-Jo at 780-482-1587 or email music@rwuc.org

Saturday January 16 7:30pm and Sunday January 16, 2011 2pm An Evening with Chopin with the Cite Ballet and the Young Ballet Company of Saskatchewan. Reception and silent auction with the Strathcona String Quartet on the 16th. Tim's Centre for the Performing Arts, UofA. Contact Tix on the Square.

Sunday January 23, 2011 2:30pm Megalopolis of the Enlightenment – A Concert of Chamber Music From 18th Century London. Henri Gauci, baroque flute, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, harpsichord. Music by Charles Dieupart, George Frederic Handel, Johann Pepusch, John Loeillet and Giacobbe Cervetto. Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209 - 123 St. $15.00 for adults, $10.00 for students and seniors and all proceeds will be in support of the Robertson-Wesley Music Society.

Saturday January 29, 2011 7pm Robertson-Wesley Music. Young artists and choirs come together for a 255th birthday tribute to Mozart. Artists include Anders Muskens, Marlena Muskens, James Bures, Ranon Soans, Jacob Struzik, Jenn Ma, Christine Lee, Sarah Dubois and Brenda Lam with The United Voices of Edmonton and soloists, Tammy-Jo Mortensen, director and accompanied by Warren Mack. Music - Mozart’s “Missa Brevis”, K 194, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, Adagio K 580a in F, Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C, as well as selections from the Sonata for Two Pianos in D, the Clarinet Concerto in A, and the Violin Concerto in A. Admission at the door is $10.00 and all proceeds will be in support of the Robertson-Wesley Music Society for the United Voices of Edmonton tour to England in August 2011.

Saturday January 29, 2011 6pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard. Cosmo Luau - Join us for a winter getaway that doesn't take six hours to fly to! A Luau dinner, dancing and frivolity! Be sure to wear your best beach wear! Ticket Information TBA

Sunday February 13, 2011 3pm Three Trios for clarinet, piano, and cello. Alexandra Munn, piano, John Mahon, clarinet, Josephine Van Lier, cello. Works by Beethoven, Brahms and Zemlinsky will be performed. Admission by donation, at the door - Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Presented by the Edmonton Arts Council.

Sunday February 13, 2011 7pm UofA music. Johannes Brahms, Carl Reinecke, and other Romantic German composers including German Lieder. Tickets, available at the door, are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

Sunday February 13, 2010 7:30pm Pro Coro Canada - Music from Space. McDougall United Church Richard Sparks, conductor. Urmas Sisask's Gloria Patri, 24 settings of latin texts and Ligeti's Lux Aeterna, written for 16 voices which came to fame when Stanley Kubrick used it in his movie, 2001 - A Space Odyssey. Join Marg Daly, Master of Musicology, for pre-concert talks beginning 45 minutes prior to each performance. Music inspired by the wonders of the universe - some will also be accompanied by photos from the Hubble telescope.

Friday February 18 and 19, 2011 8pm UofA Music Opera Scenes Showcase with the University Symphony Orchestra. Including music from Die Fledermaus, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, La Boheme, The Elixir of Love, and The Merry Widow. Stuart Howe and Elizabeth Turnbull, directors. Convocation Hall, admission by donation.

Sunday February 27, 2011 7:30pm These Are Our Songs - Vocal Alchemy. Music from the folk genre and great singer-songwriters. Guest, Jessica Heine plus more guest musicians. St. Andrew's United Church (9915 148 St). Contact Tix on the Square.

Thursday March 10, 2011 7pm Raga-Mala Music Society, Master of the Sarod. Amjad Ali Khan, with Ayaan Ali Khan and Amaan Ali Khan. Opener for the Year of India in Canada 2011 supported by the High Commission of India.

Friday March 11, 2011 Time? Penderecki String Quartet Masterclass (in conjunction with Tonus Vivus Society for New Music and the University of Alberta) Knoppers Hall, King's University College.

Monday March 14, 2011 4pm FREE LECTURE: Performing Arts and the Worlds of Islam: Synergy and Disconnect in the Indian Ocean Trade Winds. Anne K. Rasmussen, Assoc. Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology, The College of William and Mary (Virginia). UofA Fine Arts Bldg, Room 2-20. Department of Music Speakers Series.

Tuesday March 15, 2011 4pm FREE Film Screening: ZURKHANEH – The House of Strength: Music and Martial Arts of Iran, a documentary film by Federico Spinetti, 2010. UofA Arts and Convocation Hall Rm 141, 105 minutes.

Saturday March 19, 2011 7:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard CMS Series - Tuesday Band In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors . At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors.

Sunday March 20, 2011 2:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard CMS Series - Wednesday Band. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors.

Monday April 4, 2011 8pm UofA music - University Symphony Orchestra, Winspear Centre. Premiere of a new piece inspired by the photography of Ed Burtynsky by Colin Ladabie, DMus, Composition.

April 18th to May 7th, 2011. 103rd Annual Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival. Hard copies of the program will be available for purchase from the following venues: Alberta College Conservatory of Music, Gordon Price Music, St. John's Music, Festival Office.

April 6-16, 2011 8pm The Threepenny Opera - Walterdale Playhouse. Book and Lyrics by Bertolt Brech. Music by Kurt Weill, English Adaptation by Marc Blitzstein, Directed by Curtis Knecht, Music Direction by Sally Hunt

Friday April 8, and Saturday April 9, 2011 8pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard. Monday Band at the Boston Pop From Broadway to LA. All tickets $20.

Saturday April 9, 2011 7pm Homecoming - Janet Chung, organ. All Saints Anglican Cathedral. Tickets: $20.00 (Senior/Student $18) Available at Tix on the Square or at the door.

Saturday April 9, 2011 7pm Taylor Community Choir, We Are One Song. Music by Faure, Handel, Mozart and other contemporary anthems and spirituals. Lendrum Mennonite Brethren Church, 11210 59 Ave NW.

Saturday April 9, 2010 7:30pm Concordia University College Jubiloso! Bells of Concordia with the Festival City Intermediate Band concert. Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Blvd. Contact Tix on the Square.

Sunday April 10, 2011 7pm Royal Canadian College of Organists concert series. Janet Chung (Canada). All Saints Cathedral Church. Contact Tix on the Square or Arnold Rumond 780-454-3882.

Sunday April 11, 2011 7:30pm Gala Season Finale of the Edmonton Recital Society, Georgy Tchaidze, piano. Alberta College Conservatory of Music, Muttart Hall. Contact Tix on the Square. Mr. Tchaidze is the First Laureate of the 2009 Honens International Piano Competition and will perform with Clara-Jumi Kang, Gold Medalist of the 2010 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Music: Brahms Intermezzi, op. 117 featuring Georgy Tchaidze, Ysaye "Ballade" for solo violin featuring Clara-Jumi Kang, Beethoven Sonata #3 in E-flat major for violin and piano, Brahms Sonata #1 in G major for violin and piano, Brahms Sonatensatz for violin and piano. Tickets $40/$35 at the door ($10 student rush one hour before the concert) or Tix on the Square.

Monday April 11, 2011 24th Annual Mayor's Celebration of the Arts. Winspear Centre. In conjunction with the Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton.

Friday April 15, 2011 8pm Greenwood Singers, Songs from the Heart. Music from the Renaissance to Broadway, all on the theme of love including Gershwin and Cole Porter. All Saints Anglican Cathedral. Contact Tix on the Square.

Saturday April 16, 2011 3pm Kokopelli Choirs - Songquest. Shumayela and Kikimasu take the spotlight for this concert celebrating the voices of youth and children. Trinity United Church 8810 Meadowlark Road. Contact Tix on the Square.

Saturday April 16, 2011 8pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard CMS Series - Cosmo Chorus. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors . At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors.

April 17 - 20, 2011 Edmonton Cantando Festival - a non-competitive festival designed for North American school wind ensembles, concert bands, jazz bands, and choirs. Various band and choir performances at the UofA, Winspear Centre and All Saints Anglican Cathedral. Contact Cantando for more information.

Sunday April 17, 2011 2:30pm Cosmopolitan Music Society Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Boulevard CMS Series - Cosmo Chorus. In advance, tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors . At the door, tickets are $12 for adults and $9 for students and seniors

Friday April 29, 2011 7pm Ubuntu - Edmonton Children's Choir with Guelph Youth Singers (Ontario) and Storyteller Bethany Ellis. Benefit concert for THE GANG (Grandmothers of Alberta for a New Generation) in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundations' Grandmother to Grandmother campaign. West End Christian Reformed Church, 10015 149 St. Tickets $20 adults, $25 students and seniors, under 10 FREE.

Saturday April 30, 2011 7:30pm Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, presented in concert form. A fundraiser for Japan. Admission by donation. All proceeds will be donated through the Presbyterian World Service and Development Fund. All donations will receive a tax receipt. First Presbyterian Church 10025 105th Street.

Friday May 6 to Sunday May 8, 2011 The First Annual Early Music Festival by the society Early Music Alberta. 9 concerts, workshops and masterclasses. For more information including tickets click HERE. First Presbyterian Church and Holy Trinity Anglican Church.

Saturday May 7, 2011 8pm I Coristi Chamber Choir Verdure: Celebrating the greening of the earth in Forsyth’s Three Love Poems of John Donne, Badings’ Trois Chansons Bretonnes, and works by Morley, Linley, Brahms, and Swingle. St. Timothy's Anglican Church.

Sunday June 5, 2011 4pm Vocal Arts Festival Sunday in the Park – an Afternoon of Light Opera. Convocation Hall, or the courtyard in front of the Old Arts Building, (weather permitting) UofA. Music by Friml, Romberg, Léhar and Strauss including songs from The Merry Widow, The Student Prince and The Desert Song. Contact the Festival or Tix on the Square.

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